Star Trek Mod - Please need some help

[Jestak]

Greetings,

I am playing SEIV Gold since about 1 month. I am pretty new to this game. I installed the Star Trek Mod (Latest version) a few days ago and I have a problem with the game play.

My problem is simple. I can attack planets, but my attacks have little effect. Let me explain:

I chose to play the Borg. I created different ships equipped with different weapons. Tactical cubes with Planetary napalm IV, tactical cubes with biologic weapons, tactical cubes with photon torpedoes, etc. I built HUGE fleets of 40-50 tactical cubes with a mix of all those weapons and then go to attack the enemy planets.

With the standard SEIV, I have no problem at all. But with the Star Trek mod, I make my fleet to attack planets but the is very little effect. I see the population going down a little bit, I see the planet blockaded and I see the supplies of my fleet going down to zero after a few attacks. Then I need to wait many turns for my solar collectors to resupply the ships. Then I attack again and again, I see the population going down just a little bit.

Like I said, with the normal SEIV, the planet would have been glassed at the first turn.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you

EDIT:
This is not a calendar event.

[Zaamon]

I dont play STM much, but i think what is wrong. Planet glassing is much harder and you should use troops to conquer that planet. So build troops and transports.

[Randallw]

You are doing nothing wrong. I can't be certain but clearly Atrocities modded the Star Trek mod to reduce the amount of population death per point of damage. This is so that planetary populations can't be glassed in one turn. It also encourages you to try and capture the planet.

[Zaamon]

That is what i was trying to say.

BTW. Welcome to forum.

OT: no one ever sayed Welcome to me.

[Randallw]

I can see you meant the same thing. I wrote my reply at the same time as you. We just happened to say the same thing. Also don't worry. I don't remember being welcomed or not. It doesn't bother me.

[Zaamon]

Neither do i. But still.

[Jestak]

Greetings,

Thank you for the welcoming...
Here is another stupid question. Do you know where in the files I must check to see the population "resistance" to the damage of the planetary weapons? I am curious to compare with the normal SEIV scenario. I was able to find the ship design and the tech design. Quite interesting.

Thank you

[Randallw]

It's in Data/Settings

Damage Points To Kill One Population := 50

The normal one is

Damage Points To Kill One Population := 10

so it's 5 times as hard to kill population in the star trek mod.

[Jestak]

Greetings,

Thank you for the fast answer. I just did a small test and I am still puzzled.

My fleet has at least 400,000 damage points (all napalm and planetary bombs. I did not count the plasma torpedoes and other weapons). The planet has 5000M population. In one attack, the population went down to 4732M.

Does it make sense? to you?

Thank you

Thank you

[Zaamon]

Some damage go to buildings.